"Million volt coil striking grounded conductive object can generate currents exceeding 1000 A".
- Nikola Tesla,1900.
regards,
Dex
--- pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [TCML] A Safe Tesla Coil - was: Tesladownunder update, briefcase coil, lots of sparks etc
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:22:14 +0800
<snip>
The sparks from a big TC are not really in the range of mA, however the
waveform is chaotic and have peak current potentially in 10's of amps on a
microsecond basis. Even my small TC will give muscular contraction so it
must be haveing a physiological effect.
So the real safety answers? Primaries are potentialy lethal and secondaries
may be.
Peter
www.tesladownunder.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frosty" <frosty90@xxxxxxxxx>
I agree entirely. All the bad info out there saying tesla coil outputs are
'safe' as the high freqencies cannot 'be felt', is terribly misleading.
The
energy availible in a signal tesla 'strike' is probably quite
considerable,
certainly enough to do damage, even if you can't feel it immediately (from
my experience you can always feel it anyway).
Terry, as you are a doctor you could probably answer this question; what
is
the exact machanism by which electrocution causes death? Im aware there
are
usually more than one reasons, but what are the most common? In terms of
disrupting the nerves in you heart/circulatory system, it would be
interesting to know if the higher rf freqeuncies can actually cause the
same
effects as DC and lower audio frequencies. If not, maybe the output is
'safer' than its made out to be (bad wording, really should be 'not as
much
of a risk'). Aside from these effects there would be the usual burning
etc,
which seem to be worse at radio frequencies, but still for a small coil
probably not life threatening.
..
Cheers,
Jesse
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